This all started rather recently when in 2014 Google acquired an AI company called Deepmind. This British startup was being run with a 20-year roadmap, aimed to “solve intelligence”, and was backed by high-profile visionary investors like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. As part of the terms of the ~$600 million acquisition, Google had to agree to setup an ethics board to make sure Deepmind didn’t harm anyone.
Since then, Deepmind has pretty much transformed Google in every way. As of early 2015, all Google searches are now run through the Deepmind artificial neural network because it is just far better than humans at finding relevant search results. In March of this year, Deepmind beat the world champion of Go, a game so complex that it is hardly fathomable. Remember how chess is said to have as many moves as atoms in the universe? In Go, there are 10^720 possible games for every atom in the universe. What was most remarkable about Deepmind playing Go was that it made moves that humans had never conceived of before. That is truly indicative of artificial intelligence, and it comes as no surprise that this very same intelligence would prove to be immensely valuable for the 15% of all search queries given to Google that have never been seen before as well.
Fast forward to today and now Google’s artificial neural network is used for image search, speech recognition, spam detection, fraud detection, translation, and more. According to a recent article by TechRepublic, deep learning networks have now replaced 60 “handcrafted rule-based systems” at Google. They even managed to turn it loose on their data centers to realize a 15% reduction in energy usage across the board resulting in 10s of millions of dollars in cost savings and a reduction in their carbon footprint
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Google DeepMind Shows That AI Can Have "Killer Instincts"
Since then, Deepmind has pretty much transformed Google in every way. As of early 2015, all Google searches are now run through the Deepmind artificial neural network because it is just far better than humans at finding relevant search results. In March of this year, Deepmind beat the world champion of Go, a game so complex that it is hardly fathomable. Remember how chess is said to have as many moves as atoms in the universe? In Go, there are 10^720 possible games for every atom in the universe. What was most remarkable about Deepmind playing Go was that it made moves that humans had never conceived of before. That is truly indicative of artificial intelligence, and it comes as no surprise that this very same intelligence would prove to be immensely valuable for the 15% of all search queries given to Google that have never been seen before as well.
Fast forward to today and now Google’s artificial neural network is used for image search, speech recognition, spam detection, fraud detection, translation, and more. According to a recent article by TechRepublic, deep learning networks have now replaced 60 “handcrafted rule-based systems” at Google. They even managed to turn it loose on their data centers to realize a 15% reduction in energy usage across the board resulting in 10s of millions of dollars in cost savings and a reduction in their carbon footprint
One Artificial Neural Network to Rule Them All - Nanalyze
Google DeepMind Shows That AI Can Have "Killer Instincts"